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You forgot the family network. Zuckerberg père is a prominent Westchester dentist. Easier to find decent lawyers and accountants when you grow up in that sort of environment. Apparently, Zuckerberg met Sandberg at a party, hosted by a mutual friend.
Except its not just a $1000 ticket to punch a 0.1%. They also believe the ticket will be worth $10,000 afterwards.
Imagine buying some of these stocks. Next day people can only sell. What could go wrong..who will make money put of this? I think it's time to do something! People will get fed up of this fake freedom and "equal opportunity" bs
You can tell this article is well over a year old, because it doesn't mention the words Fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon (or Quanta.wiki!)

It was summer of 2019 when the vast majority of those who are most 'plugged in' realized we're going to need a new censorship-resistant web, after the Vox Adpocolypse and other totalitarian and dictatorial over-reach by BigTech, which has been escalating steadily since then, culminating even with specific stories being blacked out (by cancelling people, and companies) and leading to a level of election interference that would've simply been impossible not many years ago. Committed by not just BigTech, but by M5M also.

Point of Fact: 68% of voters had never heard of the Hunter Laptop on election day.

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TSLA is pretty obviously valuable to many people. The days of it being cool to be anti-elon are over. Go rent a Tesla for a day and try it out. You’ll understand.
They (we) can't even deport non-EU citizens!
A lot of "ordinary" people buy into funds hoping for a decent retirement.
I mostly agree, with the caveat that people can usually learn something analogous to what the know quickly, but not necessarily in a new domain. E.g. easy to go from Django to Rails or vice-versa. Similarly, not too hard to go from C++ to Java or Go, etc. But I had a tough time doing front-end development for the first time despite being a pretty strong backend/systems/embedded programmer because the programming model was so different from what I was used to and I was coming into a complicated product.
Looking at this, I guess it's safe to say that the WSB-crowd won't pull of the short squeeze: https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...... it's institutional investors lending their stock out and buying it back...
This type of interference had almost zero effect on wsb, so its hard to see it effective in the future on a platform that could most likely be decentralized.. Wsb moderators were quick to identify and remove rogue actors and go private to protect their objective. Fud was openly ridiculed and debunked on wsb.
There's also PPL going around registering the shortest handle they can find that is not yet taken by someone, and then selling them on the darknet as so called 'OG' accounts. You can get a four letter handle for $200 like `@name`
Going down is one degree lower than officially displaying a 'you cannot buy <security>' on your app. I know DDoS smell bad but it's not the same. And mind you I lost profits on the latest DDoS.
I'm actually not sure for this type of attack how much I'd value OTP authenticators over SMS. They are both vulnerable to phishing in the same way.

What I'd like to see a lot more of is WebAuthn specifically, rather than "hardware keys" generally. It's frustrating to me that the outfits I deal with only have OTP and not WebAuthn.
> in which the marketplace of filters is enabled to compete

Well, that's a nice thought, but the goal of deplatforming is to remove somebody entirely. Nobody was forced to follow Trump on twitter - he had tens of millions of voluntary followers. If your goal is to get rid of Donald Trump, you have to centralize the decision.
Hasn't been remotely enough volume for this to be true.

Really weird that people are trying to manipulate the narrative like this.
A little bit earlier

Bretton Woods system collapsed between 1971 and 1977
Love that story. It's told in more detail along with other stories like it in Business Adventures by John Brooks - https://amzn.to/3cq4Fs5
It's obviously both, to some extent, and it's less a culture war than a class war.
You know who else makes things that people want to buy? Toyota, VW, Honda, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes. Tesla is worth more than all of those combined.
It's more than one thing. There are lots of different people involved with a mixture of motivations. It's not just playing out in a single forum, either.

And while I'd agree making a "quick buck" is a driving factor, arguably "the" driving factor, that term is also relative. The average time between trades for a high-frequency trading investment firm is 40 seconds. It's out-of-place to talk about these folks making a quick buck when average trade times are measured in seconds and money is made based on having a PHYSICAL location that enables faster trades by nanoseconds.
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CNBC is like that, sure. But I’ve found articles in places like Bloomberg and NYT to be quite even handed about it all. If I recall the NYT article even ends with a quote from a pastor’s wife(!): “eat the rich”.
You do not have to carry all newsgroups, and the last time I used a free Usenet node they explicitly did not carry any binaries (too much traffic and too much liability). The reason nobody uses Usenet is that unmoderated newsgroups were taken over by nazis and trolls, and moderated newsgroups have no particular advantage over forums as far as "free speech" goes.

(Though I take issue with the idea that moderation somehow implies less free speech. It is hard to express an idea when you are buried under a pile of off-topic trolling and nazi conspiracy theories.)
Toyota makes fairly boring products of the last century. Musk is currently shooting rockets into space and deploying a network of satellites. The optics of this cannot be discounted.
The party is something like 30% of the population (recent changes due to Trump effects notwithstanding). The leadership of the party are basically republicans, but with nicer sounding rhetoric on identity politics issues. So of course her "extreme" policies don't have wide support. Republicans oppose policies that help anybody but themselves and the 1%, and even though some of them are registered democratic, Republicans still control both parties.
Yes, but there's a fairly hefty risk of it rocketing up again before collapsing, which could wipe out such short positions. (Again!)

Not a move I'd make with my retirement funds.
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During previous financial crisis, the government bailout was in form of loans, and buying assets for pennies on the dollars (that government ultimately made profit on). The people getting $2k check, no strings attached, are getting better deal than Wall Street.
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And what if there is coordination? Are you not following the news today at all?
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Yeah, so incredibly messed up. How can we sell when there are no or very few buyers?
> The problem is bigger than originally conceived then.

You're starting to get it.
Tell me about it...

I did try, but these folks are very conservative.

I have also participated in efforts to develop software-driven cameras. It is not easy. Apple makes it look easy, but there's a lot going on, under the hood, and their vast financial resources are a big help.
The sacrificial lamb enters the fray. Killing off Robinhood is a much cheaper option than allowing your Wall Street buddies to take a loss.
You are thinking to gentle and precise. Think more along the lines of setting data centers and office buildings on fire. Find anyone who has FB on a linked in profile, go their house, and burn it down. Let it all be known that it was an act of war and watch the insurance companies cover nothing.
If you are short you have to put up more and more collateral as the price goes up. So yes, eventually you may be forced to buy to cover your short, if don't have enough cash you are able or willing to tie up as collateral. This can create a feedback loop as short-sellers buy and drive the price further up, forcing other short-sellers to buy, etc., the so-called short squeeze. I have no idea if this is happening now.
If it's that global of an update, it's probably something that could be run as part of a schema migration and could just be handled during update rollout.

If it's some form of state that needs a global update on the regular, it's likely a sign that your data is not sharded properly.
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That humans are indeed special because they care about this video, while this li'le salamander over there would be satisfied by spending his day on a tree branch waiting for a fly to pass nearby.
I have former Gamestop employees that hate the company and want to see its demise on my feed going 'Good. Fuck these hedge funds,' knowing full well that people are injecting money into a company they hate.

When it gets to that, it seems to me that there's some serious anger built up.
A lot of things happened. Reagan lowered taxes, increasing the incentive to move money out of your buisness and into other investments. Globalism startedly picking up, meaning a lot of wage growth for the lower classes was outsorced to other countries instead of kept in America. The graph doesn’t capture how total employee compensation has risen a bit more than in that graph due to the explosion of costs in the American Medical sector eating up a lot of the potential compensation increase. Perhaps most importantly, Reagan began the attack on unions, resulting in there being less ability on the employee side to argue for increased wages. You could argue the massive money printing starting with the Iraq wars and going through the 2008 crisis has led to a massive funneling of that created money to the upper class, further increasing the inequality, and further exacerbated again by the death on unions meaning workers had less advocates in washington arguing for the lower classes to get a piece of that pie.
Coinbase suspended XRP. Not a perfect comparison, but perhaps closer to what you're referring to.
"They're a private company! They can restrict their product for corrupt political and financial purposes and this is good... for... reasons... at least that's what the tv/social media told me."
> you end up having freedom of press only for the people who own one.

That's how things have traditionally been in the US, is it not? As far as I know there was never any law that would force me to allow someone else to use my (literal) printing press.

The exception is the FCC fairness doctrine, but the basis for that was that the "printing press" (RF allocations) is actually a common good, and was only granted to private interests in exchange for certain concessions.
It was more like 1971: http://wtfhappenedin1971.com
If I understand correctly, this is essentially using neural nets to compress the information representing a 3D mesh [1], similar to how neural nets can do image upscaling on 2D images?

Either way, the technology of Star Trek The Next Generation went through a period in the late 90s where it all seemed ridiculous, and now we’ve come full circle and it all seems plausible again.

More specifically: I’d love to see a generative adversarial network that can materialize 3D worlds in real time, like the holodeck. More and more the holodeck seems plausible as a system of nets upon nets upon nets. Nets for generating models, nets for generating stories...

1: In this case the meshes are not polygons, but rather signed distance fields. Metaballs are commonly made with this technique.

Edit: thanks for catching the spelling mistake. Metaballs misspelled as Meatballs is a plague that continues for over two decades. Usually I try to avoid the trap altogether and say Implicit Surfaces :)
It's not a pump and dump. It's a short squeeze. It's nothing new. It's the plot of the 80s movie "Trading Places."

A hedge fund bought short position futures contracts for 120% of the available stock on the market. That's the underlying reason the price is going up: because they're forced to somehow buy more than 100% of the available Game Stop stock because they agreed to sell it to the people on the other end of those contracts for a set strike price.
Who's getting kicked out while they're winning?

No one holding GME is having their holdings seized.

No one holding GME is prevented from selling (by Robinhood; periodic circuit breakers do inject halts for everyone during periods of high volatility/price movement, which are rules set in place before [this] play began)

No one is prevented from opening an account at the many dozen other brokerages who are happy to transact in GME.
Exactly, and that the Walmart version is not "low quality". It is the older formulation. The newer better insulin analogs aren't the same old drug, but priced up. They are new, different drugs that are better.
Even when they're not buying on margin GME is in a short term bubble that will soon pop and leave millions of their users worse off than before. There probably was some internal logic of "protecting" folks from themselves whether we agree with that or not.
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where's the 'just build your stock exchange' crowd now?
It's hilarious seeing this comment the day after a busy HN thread titled, "Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25930253).

(I am ambivalent towards Tesla.)
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Was/is there a risk of the redditors losing all their money / just as much money a the hedge fund? Or is it like the hedge fund were betting with worse odds so have more to lose (excuse my ignorance of how shorting works!)
Yeah it's repeatable, all it requires is someone to short a high percentage (say 80%+) of available stock.
> I'm quite angry because I spent time investigating this problem and now it won't be fixed and it is not logical and I've lost my time.

I guess the lesson is that there is always someone angry over something unreasonable.
Apparently naming (and numbering) has been hard for at least 1 1/2 centuries.
I think this has been the standard approach for all e-ink displays that have been floating around (both homemade and commercial).

So, yeah, I appreciate it but it's not specifically innovative in this regard.
Oh, and by the way: Now A has 20 shares left (out of a 100 long position), C has 20 shares left (out of a 80 long position), and E has 60 shares (out of 60 long position).

Now assume that entity E is redditors/RobinHood/financial justice warriors that pledge to hold, and not let anyone borrow their shares, to squeeze the bad bad shorts B and D. So, FJW/HODLers control 60% of the shares now, and will never ever lend or sell!

A: 100 long (=20 shares, 80 lent), B: 80 short (=0 shares, 80 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

Well, so no A can sell, say 10 shares to B:

A: 90 long (=10 shares, 80 lent), B: 70 short (=10 shares, 80 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

And now, B returns those same 10 shares to A:

A: 90 long (=20 shares, 70 lent), B: 70 short (=0 shares, 70 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

Well, so no A can sell, again, say 10 shares to B:

A: 80 long (=10 shares, 70 lent), B: 60 short (=10 shares, 70 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

And now, B returns those same 10 shares to A:

A: 80 long (=20 shares, 60 lent), B: 60 short (=0 shares, 60 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

As you see, with only 10 shares circulating, and 60 shares in the hands of HODLers, B can happily reduce their short exposure. Let those shares circulate in this manner a bit more, and you end up with:

A: 20 long (=20 shares, 0 lent), B: 0 short (=0 shares, 0 borrowed), A+B together net 20 long (the rest is held by C, D, E)

Now, B is out of their short and flat, A has the same 20 shares it had at the beginning, and only a 20 long position now, and C, D, E keep holding their 80 shares net together.

Now, C,D can also drive down their position, we end up with A holding 20 shares, C holding 20 shares, and E holding 60 shares.

TL;DR: as long as 1 share is circulating, the shorts can reduce their position to zero, even if the majority of shares is held by never-lenders, never-sellers.

And now the market can collapse, and E is left holding the bag.
Because the rest of car companies are still figuring out that they even should be figuring out electric.
It seems like in some sense, there's no right answer.

The hard thing here is truly free / open source software relies on generosity. And the more generosity, the more sustainable it is (on behalf of the developer(s), the corporations using it, etc.).

Generosity is not a winning strategy in corporate board rooms, though.
Forcing your way into the capitol and taking over a police station are both illegal and should not be done. They both meet the formal definition of "violent insurrection" and they both happened over the last year. The media response has been asymmetrical.

Also, people are being excluded who have never called for violence. What "violent insurrection" was Discord suppressing by /r/WallStreetBets?
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It's not "you" who is doing it, it's your broker. And the reason they will 100% do that is because they want to keep their SEC license. The rest of the problem is between you and your broker, settled in real $.
The latter likely is illegal. It would depend on the specifics but the SEC enforces market manipulation rules around cornering frequently.
The act of shorting a stock puts downward pressure on the stock price, similar to the way buying a stock puts upward pressure on it.

Suppose you see an ongoing pump-n-dump---sketchy pseudoinformation being passed around to raise the price of a stock someone has already bought, so they can sell later. If you short the stock, you act to reduce the price excursion and potentially help the eventual victims.

Suppose it's not a pump-n-dump, but rather "irrational exuberance"---people buying a stock and raising the share price for non-economic reasons. Short selling applies alternate pressure on the stock price, reducing the effects of a subsequent correction.
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I'm wondering about this. I was a little skeptical of the whole David-vs-Goliath bring-down-wall-st thing. But if it's really true that this is just one small and low-relevance hedge fund getting their ass handed to them for doing something dumb, then why does it feel like there's a whole machine trying so hard to tear down /r/wallstreetbets and distort the entire retail investing market to stop it?

Why did Discord ban their server on a flimsy pretext right at the height of the attention? Why is there a sudden flood of articles about how this is all so very concerning in the mainstream financial press? Why are they mobilizing the universal weapon of calling everything they don't like Nazis?
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Yeah those look great. I'm hoping they have a built in driver or whatever and you just send the display data as serial/i2c or something.
Create collections for ordered lists of URLs, and share it, for learning. Be a learning machine at "Links".
Anyone who doesn't do it for a living should treat investing in individual stocks exactly as they would gambling in a casino.
Here's an exception in the media: Saagar Enjeti at The Hill Rising. It's a great take on the situation and he's happy to see Wall Street get kicked in the face: https://youtu.be/9ToOGrUQ7ME
Not 100% the same but this feels similar to the Apple crowd explaining to me that I don't want an open computer in my pocket.
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My point is, why is Robinhood still selling options that have a 95% chance to expire worthless, if their actual motivation is to protect their investors from high-risk trades?
To be fair, Wall Street's been unaccountable for a while. The 2008 was just a large example of this.

Do you have a reference for older people having more wealth? There's definitely a smaller number of people holding more wealth, but I haven't read about older people holding more wealth.
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My current working idea is that the universe itself is conscious, and that life is merely a small chunk of that consciousness attached to physical flesh. I have no evidence of this, of course, just merely gut feelings. Everything is viewed and understood through the human filter, even our own existence itself. That human filter has no frame of reference for what could be before or after.
I get that part, but why would 100% margin on buys eliminate the buys? If I have $100K cash, I can still buy $50K of XXX and meet the margin requirement. They are blocking buys, but not sells.
May I point you to https://communick.com? I provide a Matrix server and manage everything. My idea is exactly to help small groups to migrate.

Documentation is still lacking, but if you want you can reach me directly to help you set things up.
Can you imagine a better avenue for recalibrating people who treat investments as less risky than they actually are?

I can't.

People shouldn't be trusting stocks simply because they are stocks.
The pages are conveniently numbered so I can make sure to go through them in order which is nice.

I wonder what the creator of the HTML is up to these days - Robert Moseley.
Visicalc was released in 1979 and with that the microcomputer revolution was underway. Productivity soared while labor costs remained relatively stagnant. Every job we eliminate with software is an increase in productivity and a downward pressure on labor costs. Fast-forward 40 years and here we are.
> more efficient capital allocation

Can you explain this more? More efficient on what axes? How does that translate to societal benefits that aren't just on paper?
Ok that's not a shock collar, but creepily similar to keeping folks drugged into compliance. Also an ethical hole.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Intelligent but not self-aware?
That has so many wrong assumptions. First off the assumption that there is a group trusted in aggregate. If I trusted them they would have been party to it in the first place!

Second the logistics of it are "clever dick" as opposed to a real solution - like suggesting using one off Hoffman encoding to compress a large file to only 1 bit.

Third - blockchain to protect against leakage? That is the exact opposite of its job. Buzzwords aren't magic spells.
Doesn't fit in with what I've seen personally. Most of the people I know who've started companies have parents in high-paying jobs where they work for someone else, e.g. finance, medicine.

Edit: I'm also not saying you need to have family help to be a successful entrepreneur. Maybe the most successful person I know personally did it on his own, but he is unusual.
They mention access to encrypted data severl times:

>Technical solutions for gaining access to encrypted data must comply with...

They do say:

>there should be no single prescribed technical solution to provide access to encrypted data.

But it's perfectly clear the assumption is that they intend law enforcement to have access to all encrypted data, given the various caveats about doing so legally.

They do mention privacy, but all that means is not making user data public. They make no mention of a right to maintain data private from the government or law enforcement.
But people _want_ to buy electric. They always have if you think about it. TSLA just proved we can do it and built the infrastructure to make it compete with ICE. The market is speculative by nature. Tesla is valuable because people _want_ it to be.
You mean channels?
That's an interesting form factor, almost looks like a phone.